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Feathers in the Wind
FEATHERS IN THE WIND The following is a story which clearly illustrates the effects of harmful speech: There is a 19th century folktale about a man who went about town slandering the town’s wise man. One day, he went to the wise man’s home and asked for forgiveness. The wise man, realizing that this man […]
The Birth of a Hummingbird
This is truly amazing. Be sure to click on NEXT PAGE at the bottom of each page. There are 5 pages in all. A lady found a hummingbird nest and got pictures all the way from the egg to leaving the nest. It took 24 days from birth to flight. Because you’ll probably never in […]
The Mousetrap
A Mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. “What food might this contain?” He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning. “There is a mousetrap in the house!; there is a mousetrap in the […]
The journey to happiness
The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what’s there: all of it. Richard Rohr
Spiritual and Emotional Maturity
Some quotes from the best book on prayer I’ve read for a long time – Richard Rohr’s ‘Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer’: ~~~ ‘Lawrence Kohlberg wrote some excellent material on levels of moral development… Jesus… is a sixth-level person. Many people have not done their first-, second- and third-level work… They’re really not […]
Dorothy Sayers quotes
Dorothy L. Sayers QUOTES As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom. Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed […]
Difficult Truths
* Shalom! Rowland Croucher * * http://jmm.org.au/ * (14800+ articles, 3200 clean jokes/stories) * Tuesday, May 10, 2005 When the truth hurts, it is tempting to ignore it or to deny it. Yet when the truth hurts is precisely the time when it’s most important to pay attention to what that truth says. A real […]
Dealing With Stress
Dealing With Stress A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water, “How heavy is this glass of water?” Answers called out ranged from 20g – 500g. The lecturer replied, “the absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it. If I hold it for […]
Things I do not want to do today
My friends like to forward “things” to me, and one of the “things” sent to me was a called “Things I don’t want to do today” It was a list of chores and tasks that most of us adults need to do, if not daily, at least on a frequent basis. And it was, I […]
Don’t Take Yourself Seriously
“Ninure Saunders” wrote : (~) Things I do not want to do today Take myself too seriously. Rowland replies: Good one this. And the text for it is from Eugene Peterson’s The Message, from the middle of Micah 6: ‘And don’t take yourself too seriously – take God seriously’ From a recent Richard Rohr retreat […]
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